Twin Branch No 1 Coal Mine

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Twin Branch No 1 Coal Mine is an operating coal mine in Myrtle, Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.

Location

Table 1: Project-level location details


Mine Name	Location	Coordinates (WGS 84)
Twin Branch No 1 Coal Mine	Myrtle, Mingo County, West Virginia, United States^[1]	37.8075, -82.1689 (exact)

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Project Details

Table 2: Project status


Status	Status Detail	Opening Year	Closing Year
Operating^[1]	–	2004^[1]	–

Table 3: Operation details

Note: The asterisk (*) signifies that the value is a GEM estimated figure.
Capacity (Mtpa)	Production (Mtpa)	Year of Production	Mine Type	Mining Method	Mine Size (km2)	Mine Depth (m)	Workforce Size
–	0.9879241383^[2]	2025^[2]	Surface^[1]	–	–	75*	143^[2]

Table 4: Coal resources and destination


Total Reserves (Mt)	Year of Total Reserves Recorded	Total Resources (Mt)	Coalfield	Coal Type	Coal Grade	Primary Consumer/ Destination
–	–	–	Appalachia	Bituminous^[2]	–	–

Table 5: Ownership and parent company

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Owner	Parent Company	Headquarters
Coal-Mac LLC [100.0%]^[1]	natural persons [100%]	USA

Table 6: Historical production (unit: million tonnes per annum)


ROM or Saleable	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
ROM^[1]	1.41^[1]	1.18^[1]	1.15^[1]	0.33^[1]	0.95^[1]	1.09^[1]	1.32^[1]	–	0.99^[2]

Note: The above sections were automatically generated and are based on data from the Global Coal Mine Tracker August 2026 release.

Ownership Tree

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Background

Twin Branch No 1 Coal Mine is a surface mine in Mingo, West Virginia, United States.^[3] Coal-Mac LLC operates the mine, which is owned by John M Potter. More details as appropriate.^[3]

Operator: Coal-Mac LLC.^[3]
Owner: John M Potter^[3]
Location: Mingo, West Virginia, United States^[3]
Coordinates: 37.8075, -82.1689 (Exact)
Status: Operating
Production: 0.337 million tonnes (2020) 1.157 million tonnes (2019)^[3]
Total Reserves:
Mineable Reserves:
Coal Type: Bituminous
Mine Type: Surface
Start Year: 2013 ^[3]
Source of Financing:

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Additional data

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References

↑ ^1.00 ^1.01 ^1.02 ^1.03 ^1.04 ^1.05 ^1.06 ^1.07 ^1.08 ^1.09 ^1.10 ^1.11 ^1.12 "Mine Data Retrieval System". Mine Health and Safety Administration. Archived from the original on 2024-07-17. Retrieved 2025-04-18.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20260701051244/https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/statistics/mine-employment-and-coal-production. Archived from the original on 01 July 2026. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 United States Department of Labour, "Mine Data Retrieval System: Twin Branch No 1", Mine Data Retrieval System website, Accessed April 2021

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[autoref_1-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20260701051244/https://www.msha.gov/data-and-reports/statistics/mine-employment-and-coal-production. Archived from the original on 01 July 2026. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archive-date= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)

[MDRS-3] 3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 ^3.4 ^3.5 ^3.6 United States Department of Labour, "Mine Data Retrieval System: Twin Branch No 1", Mine Data Retrieval System website, Accessed April 2021

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